On Tuesday’s exclusive Marvel event, the studio announced the 8 titles that would make up Phase 3 of their hugely successful cinematic universe. This included confirmation of further sequels for the CAPTAIN AMERICA, THOR, AVENGERS and GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY franchises, as well as first-time outings for BLACK PANTHER, CAPTAIN MARVEL, DOCTOR STRANGE and the INHUMANS, which you can find out more about here.
The world of social media went crazy with excitement at all of the Marvel announcements and the lovely people at Way To Blue have released some very telling statistics about which films have got people the most excited.
BLACK PANTHER was the big social buzz winner, as it was announced that GET ON UP STAR Chadwick Boseman would be taking on the role. Boseman joined stars Chris Evans and Robert Downey Jr onstage at the El Capitan theatre in Hollywood to cement the news and reveal some exclusive concept art of his character, helping the film climb to a mighty 63,098 mentions.
The film will mark the first time a black superhero will headline a Marvel Studios film, marking a turn towards a more diversified range of heroes for the cinematic universe. Furthering the diversified Marvel Studios superhero line-up will be the female CAPTAIN MARVEL, who secured the second biggest social buzz with 36,994 mentions.
Marvel Studios has had a successful few weeks, as this event follows the epic launch of the AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON trailer, which generated a total of 185,155 mentions and 51,119 Intent-to-View mentions on the day of its ‘Hydra’ leak.
A new clip from the film, which also premiered on Tuesday during Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, also proved popular generating 19,305 mentions and 5,083 Intent-to-View mentions.
Watch the trailer here:
So it seems the Marvel Universe is continuing to grow and we can’t wait for the release of the new films and Phase 3 to commence!
For all of the information about the release dates of the films, click here.
